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Dispatch
Witnesses to War
Military families bring the cost of war to students
Phoebe Connelly
Viewpoint
Permanent Occupation
Rep. Barbara Lee
Karma Police….
Brian Cook

Feature
Hurricanes Rain on Bushs Tax Cut Parade
How the Katrina catastrophe proves that conservatives' tax cut zealotry has left America vulnerable to disaster.
David Sirota
Precipitating Disasters: A Timeline
David Sirota

Culture
When We Were Psychos
Michael Atkinson
We’ll Be Right Back With More Racist Fantasies After A Word From Our Sponsors
Brian Cook
Sheehan and dozens others arrested for civil disobedience
Tracy Van Slyke
Strength in Numbers
Brian Cook

Feature
Disasters: Natural and Social
Eric Klinenberg discusses the militarization of social services and what will be missing from any national conversations about poverty
Joel Bleifuss
Viewpoint
The Margins Go Mainstream
Susan J. Douglas
Viewpoint
The New New Orleans
Joel Bleifuss

Feature
Reckoning with the God Squad
Fundamentalist bullies cannot be appeased. They must be confronted.
Bill Moyers

Dispatch
Ready for Dialogue
Andrew Stelzer
Palast swings and misses at British MP Galloway
Tracy Van Slyke
Interview with a Gay Iranian
Brian Cook
“George Bush Don’t Like Black People”
Brian Cook

Feature
Bad on the Basics
John Roberts' affability masks a callous indifference to some of our most fundamental rights
Stephen J. Fortunato Jr.
Announcing In These Times’ New Agreement with the National Writers Union
Freelance contributors are essential to the quality and success of In These Times and independent media, and this agreement is one way to demonstrate their value to our publication and our commitment to transparency.
For more information about the National Writers Union, visit nwu.org.
Read the full agreement, which reaffirms a floor for the rates of our freelance editorial content, as well as our current rates (which are higher) and submissions guidelines below.